Obama Spent Insane Money Promoting Obamacare

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Remember when the then-sitting President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act and launched a disastrous website that kept crashing, and he went on the late-night talk show circuit to promote his pride and joy like he just wrote a New York Times best-seller?

Well all of that cost money. Not just any money; your money.

The New York Post just uncovered the Obama administration had spent an insane amount of taxpayers’ money promoting his failed health plan.

The New York Post reported:

“The Obama administration doled out more than $77 million to promote the former president’s signature health care legislation in what could be its final full year of existence, contracts obtained by The Post on Sunday reveal.

They show the federal government contracted with Democratic-leaning p.r. firm Weber Shandwick to spend $74.15 million on July 28, 2016, and another $3.69 million on Sept. 9, 2016, promoting the plan.

Of that, $64 million funded an advertising blitz — including TV, digital and radio — $4 million went to creative development and production, $5 million to direct response marketing, $2 million to campaign strategy, $1 million to branding and $1.5 million to encourage small business enrollment.

An official of the current White House dismissed the Obama administration’s last-ditch efforts to try to swell enrollment numbers.

‘Tens of millions in hard-earned taxpayer funds spent on TV ads won’t sell a fundamentally flawed approach to health care,’ the official told The Post.

The Weber Shandwick contract was signed by Pam Jenkins, president of the firm. Its chairman, Jack Leslie, was picked by Obama in 2009 to be chairman of the US African Development Foundation.